Eleanor is our sample story — everything here is a demonstration.
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A story with voices
Parker Family Circle (sample)Family · 1962
Evenings on the porch
Henry painted the porch yellow because I said it looked like the inside of a lemon pie. Every summer evening the neighbors drifted over, and I kept a pitcher of iced tea by the swing.
Eleanor
Mom would read out loud until the streetlights came on — that was our signal to go in. She never finished a chapter on the first night. She said it kept us coming back.
Ruth Parker · voice
Found this in Dad’s desk: Mom on the porch steps, 1962, with the swing just behind her.
Daniel Parker · photo
Spoken pieces are kept as the speaker's own words.
One gentle prompt at a time. Tell it in writing or say it out loud; photos belong with the moments they show.
- What a family member can do
- Relatives add their piece — typed, spoken (kept as their words) or a photograph.
- What the family controls
- Every piece keeps its author's name. Nothing is rewritten.